Familiar Cottage

In the late 60s when I was a young teacher I travelled by bus every Saturday morning to Wath -on -Dearne where there was a music centre. Part of the journey was on the Dewsbury to Barnsley road.The road was one I hadn't travelled along before. I enjoyed looking out at the countryside. Along the route I passed a pair of cottages which were adjoined and set at right angles to the road. I always looked at one of them in particular which had an apple tree in in front of it. I wished I could get out there and sketch it.There was something about the cottage that drew me to it. I married and came to live in London in 1973. Many years later,sometime after my father died in 1978, when I was visiting family in Yorkshire, I took my aunt out for lunch. She said she knew a good place to eat and directed me along the road from her home in Thornhill towards Barnsley. As I drove along she pointed out a cottage where she remembered going to visit her grandfather when she was a child.It was the same cottage I had seen on my frequent journeys to Barnsley all those years ago. It amused me to think it had been my great grandfather's home.